Rosalinda (Spanish pronunciation: [rosaˈlinda]) is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in 1999. This is the last Soap opera to star Thalía in her title role.
Thalía and Fernando Carrillo starred as the protagonists, while Nora Salinas and Lupita Ferrer starred as the antagonists.
Rosalinda is a pretty woman who sells flowers and decorates a fancy restaurant. One day, she meets Fernando José, a man of high social status. He plays the piano at the restaurant. They eventually fall in love, get married, and have a child named Erika, but his stepmother Valeria desires to split the happy couple up, and she has the perfect way of doing so.
Rosalinda's real mother, Soledad, served a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of Fernando José's real father. She was innocent, but took the blame. After finding out this horrible news, Fernando José abandons Rosalinda and her daughter. Valeria kidnaps Erika. Rosalinda goes into a clinical and eventually loses her mind. She is locked up in a mental hospital.